M5s to ask Meloni for urgent briefing on Salis case

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 30 - The centre-left opposition Five Star Movement (M5S) led by former premier Giuseppe Conte on Tuesday called for Premier Giorgia Meloni to give an urgent briefing to parliament on the case of Ilaria Salis, the 39-year-old Milan primary school teacher and antifascist militant who on Monday was dragged in chains into a Budapest court where she is on trial for attacking two Hungarian neoNazis a year ago.
    "Yesterday's shocking images of Ilaria Salis, who was handcuffed in an undignified manner in the court of a country of which Giorgia Meloni boasts of being a friend, have left us stunned," M5S House whip Francesco Silvestri told ANSA.
    "As soon as the assembly opens we will request an urgent briefing from the premier. The gravity of the situation requires immediate information and action," he continued.
    "We want to know whether the government, through the foreign ministry, was already aware of Ilaria's condition.
    "We hope that Giorgia Meloni will put the interests of Italian citizens before those of Orban," concluded Silvestri. (ANSA).